Pleco Caves

[MermaidMel]

Hi people, I am looking for ideas (and photos if poss) of very natural looking caves, I don't want terracotta or coconut shell or slate in my tank, but I am looking for ways to create hideout spaces in a natural and rustic looking way, any ideas please? X

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

I got quite lucky when searching through my favourite LFS' bogwood a month back when setting up my 240...

I found a perfect "zig-zag" shaped base piece of bogwood (18x15 surface area), with a "trunk" extension that reaches the water surface, with two pieces that could wrap around the trunk and covered the voids in the zig-zag to create caves!

 

[MermaidMel]

I got quite lucky when searching through my favourite LFS' bogwood a month back when setting up my 240...

I found a perfect "zig-zag" shaped base piece of bogwood (18x15 surface area), with a "trunk" extension that reaches the water surface, with two pieces that could wrap around the trunk and covered the voids in the zig-zag to create caves!

Sounds awesome, but need a pic

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Let me just munch on dinner, watch a DVD episode of Johnathon Creek with my better half and I will hustle up a pic just for you (well, for my plant journal too, as I changed the layout when the adult Pearl Danios went into QT last Sunday)

 

[haowin]

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/327567-caves-and-hiding-places/

not my idea so i cant take credit, hehe.

 

[OohFeeshy]

If you can attatch enough stuff to cork bark to make it sink, you can buy it as tubes and moss and things will happily grow on it.

Or black PVC pipe, stuff can also be attatched to it in various ways.

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

 

[Zoepop]

Fantastic looking tank NObody of the goat!!

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Thanks Zoepop!

All I need now is for the helferi (mini star lettuce type plant) to stop floating to the tank surface on almost a daily basis and grow some proper roots; the adults Danios to come through their medication for what is now thought to be a bacterial growth on two of their chins; the baby Chocalte Orange Rabbit Snail to thrive and the now 19+ fry to let me catch them in the coming week to place them in the safety of a ultra-fine mesh breeding net... Not asking much am I, for a six week old novice keeper?